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Posted on by SkiDK 1,016

Hi everyone,

 

I noticed this morning that suddenly the PDF Viewer control does not show its documents. It has worked for almost 2 years, and nothing was changed and it suddenly broke. This for 3 different apps, each in a different environment.

 

I made a test, where I rebuild a flow to retrieve a pdf from SharePoint and show it in the viewer control by passing to PowerApps, but still nothing shows. The flow works and returns the file content to PowerApps, which receives it successfully and stores in a variable, which I then use in the PDF Viewer. All looks fine there, no errors are shown, but the pdf just doesn't show in the viewer.

 

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Has someone else noticed this behavior? Was something changed about the PDF Viewer?

 

Thanks,

Ski

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  • WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    WarrenBelz 156,538 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @SkiDK ,

    You are the third post in the last hour or so on this - it has to be a bug

    First one

    Second one

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    SkiDK 1,016 on at

    Hi @WarrenBelz 

     

    Ok, thanks for the notice. I guess we'll just wait it out for a while.

     

    I'll send in a ticket if it takes too long.

     

     

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    SkiDK 1,016 on at

    Temporary fix by @

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I'm having the same issue, suddenly stopped working even in the model apps "PDF Reader" suggested by PowerApps

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello everyone,

     

    same problem for me, even with a new app and the default SamplePDF not showing up.

     

    I'm trying to figure out a solution since yesterday but I can see here I lost my time.

     

    Thanks for the feedbacks.

  • JoepTh Profile Picture
    JoepTh 19 on at

    I have the same issue. Using the PDF viewer in an app and since a week (or so) it does show the PDF document but grayed out and I cannot scroll through the document.

     

  • steve_hendy Profile Picture
    steve_hendy 388 on at

    I have the same issue.  I tried previous authoring versions but none work.

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